And how many of those quotes are embedded in anti-Catholic threads, or Catholic threads in the process of being hijacked or otherwise ruined? I don’t countenance some of these quotes myself (though some of them are obviously rhetorical devices giving back in kind what had just been received), but people say things out of frustration with the circumstances that they otherwise might not say. It’s called “attitude escalation.” Not a pretty thing, to be sure. But to deny that’s part of human nature is to be naive in the extreme, or an exercise in posturing bordering on the ludicrous. Almost, in fact, as naive or posturing as some folks are on this forum who claim that anti-Protestantism (measured either in threads or in total posts) is more prevalent here on FR than anti-Catholicism, measured in the same way.
Anyway, I’d be surprised if more than two of these quotes originated in Protestant-themed threads, or neutral ones. Nearly all of them, I’d bet, come from the types of threads mentioned above. Care to look into it?
BTW, a personal family emergency has slowed down my recently promised analysis of this very thing, but it’s coming shortly.
The number on the posts are linked to the original post. I am not sure how you judge that a thread is anti-Catholic or hijacked threads. I hope your family emergency is nothing serious.